In President Obama’s Back to School speech, he talks about the responsibility students have to themselves, and the country, to graduate from school. He emphasizes the idea that if students give up on school, they are not only giving up on the future of the country but that they are also giving up on themselves.
In his speech, he highly uses pathos as a way to convince student to stay in school. in the beginning of his speech, he starts off by asking how everyone is doing. Then he goes on to tell the students he understands how they feel on the first day of school, by telling then “it's understandable if you’re a little nervous”. Then he tells the story of how he grew up and that he “knows that feeling”. He uses pathos as a way to connect with the students and show that …show more content…
Which isn't necessarily true. There are many people in the world that have dropped out of school and went on to change the world in a huge way. And who knows I might be one of those people. There was one point in his speech that I do highly agree with and that was “There is no excuse for not trying.” And that’s true for both the points he makes in his speech and my opinion. No matter what you decide to do in life, whether you decide to work hard and graduate and then change to world or drop out work hard and then change the world, you can accomplish anything if you don’t try. I don’t look at dropping out of school as a failure. Maybe you had no other choice. Maybe you wanted to change the world right now but your plan wouldn’t work unless you dropped out.The way I see it is, if you made a change in the world or you feel like you succeeded in life, then it doesn’t matter whether or not you have a diploma or a GED. By the way I'm not encouraging people to just drop out of school and give up education all together . If you drop out, then seek some other form of education and make a
In his speech, he highly uses pathos as a way to convince student to stay in school. in the beginning of his speech, he starts off by asking how everyone is doing. Then he goes on to tell the students he understands how they feel on the first day of school, by telling then “it's understandable if you’re a little nervous”. Then he tells the story of how he grew up and that he “knows that feeling”. He uses pathos as a way to connect with the students and show that …show more content…
Which isn't necessarily true. There are many people in the world that have dropped out of school and went on to change the world in a huge way. And who knows I might be one of those people. There was one point in his speech that I do highly agree with and that was “There is no excuse for not trying.” And that’s true for both the points he makes in his speech and my opinion. No matter what you decide to do in life, whether you decide to work hard and graduate and then change to world or drop out work hard and then change the world, you can accomplish anything if you don’t try. I don’t look at dropping out of school as a failure. Maybe you had no other choice. Maybe you wanted to change the world right now but your plan wouldn’t work unless you dropped out.The way I see it is, if you made a change in the world or you feel like you succeeded in life, then it doesn’t matter whether or not you have a diploma or a GED. By the way I'm not encouraging people to just drop out of school and give up education all together . If you drop out, then seek some other form of education and make a